The Cost of Transmission for Wind Energy: A Review of Transmission Planning Studies

LBNL- E RNEST O RLANDO L AWRENCE B ERKELEY N ATIONAL L ABORATORY The Cost of Transmission for Wind Energy: A Review of Transmission Planning Studies Andrew Mills, Ryan Wiser, and Kevin Porter Environmental Energy Technologies Division February 2009 Download from http://eetd.lbl.gov/EA/EMP The work described in this report was funded by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (Wind & Hydropower Technologies Program) and by the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (Permitting, Siting and Analysis Division) of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.

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